Speaker 1: All right, glad you're with us. Thank you, Scott Shannon
Speaker 1: toll Free. It's eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean.
Speaker 1: You want to be a part of this extravagance, and
Speaker 1: you cannot believe the mishmash that is Joe Biden day.
Speaker 1: What's seventy five now of him hiding in his basement
Speaker 1: with only a ten minute reprieve and another disastrous Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you want to call it a performance? Obviously,
Speaker 1: no fastball, no curveball, nothing. We'll get to that. In
Speaker 1: the course of the show. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: updates with a deep State today news we made nobody
Speaker 1: paid attention to. Apparently unmasking at a spectacular level now
Speaker 1: has become part of John Dorham's investigation. They have also
Speaker 1: appointed another federal prosecutor. The DJ's also going to be
Speaker 1: weighing in with this three judge panel as it relates
Speaker 1: to Judge Emmett Sullivan's you know, unbelievable in my view,
Speaker 1: misconduct in the particular case by not dropping the case
Speaker 1: and then literally inviting every group in the world that
Speaker 1: has a political agenda to weigh into this. We'll hit
Speaker 1: that today as well. There are a lot of things
Speaker 1: angry me today. One the most the more I see
Speaker 1: this interview, this video rather of what happened in Minneapolis
Speaker 1: with George Floyd, I get I am. Now I'm almost
Speaker 1: borderline apoplectic about it. I just if it infuriates me
Speaker 1: for a lot of different reasons. Now, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be consistent because I always am, and that is okay.
Speaker 1: We don't rush to judgment. We believe in due process, process,
Speaker 1: we believe in the presumption of innocence. But with that said,
Speaker 1: our eyes show us so much wrong here. It makes
Speaker 1: my blood boy. Number one, we saw no evidence whatsoever
Speaker 1: of George Floyd resisting in any way, and let me
Speaker 1: lay as a foundation. We're talking about the crime they're
Speaker 1: looking into. Here's about a possible counterfeit twenty dollar bill.
Speaker 1: That just some context to this here. Now, do I
Speaker 1: think crimes should be punished, Yes, arrest made, Yes, phone
Speaker 1: calls made of the cops, Okay. Dan Bongino said it
Speaker 1: best on TV last night. Once you have somebody that
Speaker 1: is not resisting in handcuffs, it's over. The fight is over.
Speaker 1: That's number one. I have spoken a lot about my
Speaker 1: seven years now in a row training mixed martial arts.
Speaker 1: It's an eclectic blend of arts. It is crab magaw keempo,
Speaker 1: Brazilian jiu jitsu, boxing, situational street fighting. We do blade sticks, firearms,
Speaker 1: a lot of training, a lot of training, a lot
Speaker 1: of what happens, if this happens, if that happens. And
Speaker 1: you know, I don't really I'm not into like posting
Speaker 1: everything that I do on social media because I don't
Speaker 1: think people give a rip anyway, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it is based in vanity. But I do
Speaker 1: it for two reasons. Number one, it is a hard
Speaker 1: work out, great workout. I like to be able to
Speaker 1: defend myself and having an alternative when you train. And
Speaker 1: as I have gotten deeper and deeper into the arts,
Speaker 1: it didn't take long to figure out there are certain
Speaker 1: very specific strike areas. If your life is being threatened,
Speaker 1: the most vulnerable part of a human being is their neck.
Speaker 1: It's just a fact. It's well known. And so we
Speaker 1: don't see George Floyd resisting arrest. Then we are watching
Speaker 1: as the minutes tick by the police officer in this case,
Speaker 1: and again I don't even see that anybody. I've not
Speaker 1: hurting anybody, say anything contrary even my all my law
Speaker 1: enforcement friends, Bernie Kerrig last night, Dan Mongino last night,
Speaker 1: so many others contacting me, they cannot believe what they
Speaker 1: witnessed here. Because what you have is the officer taking
Speaker 1: his knee and if you watch, as we pointed out
Speaker 1: last night, the right foot of the officer, all the
Speaker 1: weight is on that left knee right into the neck
Speaker 1: of mister Floyd, which is and his head into the pavement.
Speaker 1: Now it went on. We never got the exact time
Speaker 1: and somewhere, but it went on at least six minutes,
Speaker 1: maybe as high as hey. I keep reading conflicting reports.
Speaker 1: We weren't even able to totally confirm that. And his
Speaker 1: arms are behind his back, and he keeps saying over
Speaker 1: and over again as that there's a huge amount of
Speaker 1: pressure on this man's neck. When he was saying he
Speaker 1: can't breathe, he couldn't breathe. And I can tell you
Speaker 1: I actually trained this morning, and I had long discussions
Speaker 1: with my sense a sense A Glenn, he's been on
Speaker 1: the program before, a great guy. And you know there
Speaker 1: are targeted strikes. For example, if somebody has any knowledge
Speaker 1: of martial arts, a lot of you know, how you
Speaker 1: defend yourself, I'll walk away. You can call me any
Speaker 1: name in the book. I'm gonna walk away. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: walk away backwards, looking at you until and diffuse any
Speaker 1: situation because I don't want to use what I've learned
Speaker 1: because it's that dangerous and you have to be you
Speaker 1: have to be careful. But if you take one strike,
Speaker 1: targeted strike to the karated and you can go online
Speaker 1: and google it, there's videos out there this happening. If
Speaker 1: you do it, then you'll see a person literally, if
Speaker 1: it's a good strike, they're gonna drop to their knees.
Speaker 1: They're gonna drop right down. I was watching one of
Speaker 1: the videos this morning. Not only did the guy it
Speaker 1: was a really well trained artist. The strike was perfect,
Speaker 1: it was one strike, fight was over. The guy literally
Speaker 1: nailed as carotid. The guy went down. When the guy
Speaker 1: got up to try and start walking again, it fell
Speaker 1: down again, then fell down a third time. Because what
Speaker 1: it does is for that brief second, of that brief
Speaker 1: second now of that strike, it cuts off all the
Speaker 1: blood circulation going to one's brain. There are trait holds
Speaker 1: that are banned by pretty much every police department. You have,
Speaker 1: choke holds that are banned now by most police departments
Speaker 1: because they recognize the severity of that kind of treatment.
Speaker 1: It is such a it is such an egregious error
Speaker 1: in judgment at it's flabbergasting to me. Is it was
Speaker 1: full on to me. And again, my eyes aren't deceiving me.
Speaker 1: This is a human being. He's down there, so I
Speaker 1: can't breathe. If you know anything, I can't believe that
Speaker 1: this officer did not understand the severity of this, because
Speaker 1: it was full on, hardcore pressure and literally pinning this
Speaker 1: guy's head to the pavement. In all honesty. If you,
Speaker 1: for example, if I did, say an arm drag into
Speaker 1: a choke hold, and I got my arm in solid
Speaker 1: around your neck, and I applied pressure as I've been
Speaker 1: trained to do, and that pressure would go on corrodotateries
Speaker 1: on both sides, you would pass out in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1: Now I did it today with my sense. I've been
Speaker 1: feeling good all day. As a result, I said, all right,
Speaker 1: put me in a holt. I think I made nine
Speaker 1: seconds and I tapped out because I was going to
Speaker 1: pass out nine seconds, fifteen seconds, maybe twenty. If you
Speaker 1: really have a tight hold, it's you're done and in
Speaker 1: that sense, and then I'm watching this, what the hell
Speaker 1: are they doing? And the other cops are there, and
Speaker 1: this is inexplicable to me. They're just standing there and
Speaker 1: this goes on and on and on and for six
Speaker 1: solid minutes. The guy's bet he's not resisted begging to
Speaker 1: get up. When you have an apprehension, Dan Bongino's right,
Speaker 1: guy's not resisting. Got him, coff, You put him in
Speaker 1: the back of the car. You know, you sort it
Speaker 1: out at the station in the terms of Okay, you're
Speaker 1: being charged with this, it's probably going to get a
Speaker 1: citation and walk out. I mean, it's unbelievable to me,
Speaker 1: and it's very frustrating. From the standpoint is it's sort
Speaker 1: of like, you know, the shock of when Joe Degenivas
Speaker 1: said on TV night, you know about came and others,
Speaker 1: they're dirty cops. I flinched because my mom was a
Speaker 1: prison guard. My my mom, you know, she's kind of
Speaker 1: a you know, a short woman, you know, elderly. You know,
Speaker 1: she's in a prison all day and so at times
Speaker 1: you have to deal with prisoners, but they have very
Speaker 1: specific techniques. You've got to protect people as well. And
Speaker 1: in this case, this is a there was never one
Speaker 1: second of need for this six minutes. It then becomes
Speaker 1: I there's no surprise if you understand anything about the
Speaker 1: sensitivity of the neck, why this guy died and if
Speaker 1: that cop maybe somehow lost perspective in the moment, somebody
Speaker 1: else should have stepped in and said get him in
Speaker 1: the car, now, get your foot off his neck. He's
Speaker 1: not doing anything. And it frustrates me because then the
Speaker 1: you know, then we have the the predictable. All cops
Speaker 1: are bad. They're not bad people, the ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: of them, but there's one percent that would use force
Speaker 1: such as this. They give every cop a bad name.
Speaker 1: And we have to be careful that we we don't
Speaker 1: rush to judgment and think all cops are this way
Speaker 1: most cops. You know, Look, being a CoP's not an
Speaker 1: easy job. There's never gonna be in a rest usually
Speaker 1: where a cop is using any type of force and
Speaker 1: putting you in handcuffs, and if somebody's resisting, it's gonna
Speaker 1: look that much worse. But cops don't know when they
Speaker 1: pull people over if they have a gun. Cops don't
Speaker 1: know if you have drugs in the car, you know
Speaker 1: it's you don't know. At any given moment, you really
Speaker 1: really really need to be in charge and safe and
Speaker 1: you have to balance all of this and if once,
Speaker 1: but but the rule is the rule. Once a person
Speaker 1: is in your control and not resisting, it's over. And
Speaker 1: the fact that this was allowed to go on, and
Speaker 1: the fact that it happened in the first place, there
Speaker 1: is I see no rationale whatsoever that I can manufacture
Speaker 1: as somebody that always wants to give people the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt because sometimes as circumstances you don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't believe in trial by videotape. I believe these
Speaker 1: guys have a right to a fair trial. The tape,
Speaker 1: to me, though, is devastating, and I watch it and
Speaker 1: I get angrier every time I do. Because listen, if
Speaker 1: if you, for exact, if you do a poke of
Speaker 1: somebody's track, if you, if you're trained, you take you
Speaker 1: know where your trake is, you feel just below your
Speaker 1: Adams apple, There's like this little space there you go
Speaker 1: in you hit that, just poke at it and you
Speaker 1: target it and you hit it. They're gonna go down.
Speaker 1: If you put your somebody in a choke hold, a
Speaker 1: trake hold, the odds of death are high. You know
Speaker 1: you're going to hurt that person. There might be situations
Speaker 1: people need to use that, but that's not your first option.
Speaker 1: That's one of your last options. And you know, Sean,
Speaker 1: it's something that we were talking about a little bit before,
Speaker 1: which is that, you know, the whole situation here, everyone
Speaker 1: who's seen the tape is just as outraged. You know,
Speaker 1: this should be a memory of being of solidarity of
Speaker 1: everybody's saying this was wrong. But this is not every cop.
Speaker 1: And we need to focus on the fact that this
Speaker 1: guy was turning his life around and it was taken
Speaker 1: role apparently becoming a very very Christian man turning his
Speaker 1: life around. But others are using it for divisiveness, and
Speaker 1: that's not Okay, that's not what this is about. Was
Speaker 1: a component to this, You're right, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: what did we watch too? We watched okay, a target
Speaker 1: store looted, a liquor store looted, fires auto zone. The
Speaker 1: police chief erranando, you know, saying they didn't have a
Speaker 1: police presence because they didn't they didn't feel that they
Speaker 1: could handle it. Well, we gotta get them to help
Speaker 1: to handle it. Al Sharpton is now headed there. It
Speaker 1: is so sad to me that life is precious. You know,
Speaker 1: the President when he says we're one glorious nation under God,
Speaker 1: where one united American family, He's right, we are. And
Speaker 1: as a Christian, and I don't talk a lot about
Speaker 1: my faith, I don't think people want me to proselytize.
Speaker 1: But as a Christian, we all are created in God's image.
Speaker 1: All of us are created. And that's a life with
Speaker 1: that knee on the neck, and that life is now gone,
Speaker 1: and it didn't have to happen. It's sad and words
Speaker 1: cannot describe how I feel today. I'm so angry from
Speaker 1: a lot of different angles. And I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: say I pray for this guy's family. You know. The
Speaker 1: sister actually came out and she said, literally, they murdered
Speaker 1: my brother and the family saw it. But the girlfriend
Speaker 1: came out and said, but the looters and the rioters
Speaker 1: do not speak for him. He would not want this.
Speaker 1: It's brother, I think said that. You know he wants
Speaker 1: the death penalty. I just it's so unfortunate that. Look,
Speaker 1: I believe in peaceful protesting. Don't go looting stores, putting
Speaker 1: stores on fire. We have enough trouble with the economy,
Speaker 1: jobs lost, and it's it won't do any good. And
Speaker 1: the people that are the leaders, you've got to be
Speaker 1: leaders now. Protest all you want, you know, right, you
Speaker 1: have a right and a righteous anger here, but that
Speaker 1: part of it has to not happen for everybody's sake.
Speaker 1: We do have some other aspects of this that we're
Speaker 1: going to get into. As it relates to George Floyd,
Speaker 1: and he was unemployed due to coronavirus. He moved to Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: wanted a fresh start and his life. According to all
Speaker 1: the accounts that I've read, and we'll find out soon,
Speaker 1: he was he was hoping for a new life and
Speaker 1: he has a lot of lifelong friends and lost his
Speaker 1: job at a bounce as a bouncer with the stay
Speaker 1: at home order there and uh, you know this was
Speaker 1: about passing a counterfeit twenty dollar bill. Um. These are
Speaker 1: these are simple fundamentals you're gonna be in law enforcement.
Speaker 1: The fundamental is easy. Once somebody's in custody, once they're
Speaker 1: not resisting, that's it. It's over. It's at that is
Speaker 1: the end of it. The amount of pressure on the neck,
Speaker 1: I knowing what I know, I am telling you it
Speaker 1: is like it is the single dumbest, unnecessary thing I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. It breaks my heart to see this twenty
Speaker 1: five nowns at the top of the hour, eight hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety four one, Sean, if you want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the program. I'm also angry about a
Speaker 1: lot of issues involving Corona. It's frustrating beyond words. Um
Speaker 1: So this goes on. What was the total time? I've
Speaker 1: seen it written up every way in sideways and no
Speaker 1: definitive time to I see six minutes, I see up
Speaker 1: to eight minutes. What was the total time, Linda, do
Speaker 1: you know it was nine minutes? All right? It was
Speaker 1: nine minutes with nine minutes. Nobody can survive that. That's
Speaker 1: a death sentence. This is and this is hard to
Speaker 1: listen to. And we played it a lot last night
Speaker 1: and I again, the more I look at this, the
Speaker 1: angrier I get. I didn't you know, I'm so wrapped
Speaker 1: up in a lot of other coverage. I didn't see
Speaker 1: it till late yesterday and I looked at it. I said,
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me, And then I kept looking
Speaker 1: at it and looking at it. Here is George Floyd
Speaker 1: if you have kids in the car, you may want
Speaker 1: to lower the volume. Here's him scream I mean I
Speaker 1: can't breathe here now, I'm just telling you as somebody,
Speaker 1: that is a real He couldn't breathe. He wasn't resisting.
Speaker 1: That is a death sentence right there. It is so frustrating. Um.
Speaker 1: We we mentioned that what he had done after coronavirus,
Speaker 1: he moved from Houston into Minneapolis. He wanted to get
Speaker 1: a fresh start in his life. By all accounts, all
Speaker 1: the people. You know, he'd lost his job when the
Speaker 1: Minnesota governor issued a stay at home order and you
Speaker 1: know it was Employeed grocery store called the police after
Speaker 1: he allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit twenty dollars bill.
Speaker 1: I mean it must have been on the surface. I
Speaker 1: don't recall ever, if you've ever given somebody a hundred,
Speaker 1: if they usually take out this marker, and you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe it was just such a bad counterfeit.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know it it's twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: That's another thing. Where is the context in things here?
Speaker 1: Then we got the other video which showed that even
Speaker 1: when they were walking him before the choking incident happened here,
Speaker 1: and the knee on the neck incident happened. He was
Speaker 1: not resisting arrest in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Speaker 1: He wasn't. Missy is in West Virginia. Missy, you're on
Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show. Son, Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: I wanted to make a couple of points, if you'll
Speaker 1: let me. First off, I was a cop for twenty years.
Speaker 1: Watching that video on your show last night, I had
Speaker 1: to turn my back and listen to you because it
Speaker 1: disturbed me. A couple of things that really bother me
Speaker 1: is if this was over a counterfeit bill. The jurisdiction
Speaker 1: that I worked for, we couldn't arrest somebody for a
Speaker 1: counterfeit bill. We would take the evidence, take their name,
Speaker 1: and call the Feds. The FEDS handled counterfeit bills. We
Speaker 1: didn't have the right to arrest somebody for that. That's
Speaker 1: the first problem. Number two, I would think that if
Speaker 1: you're passing phony bills that look, that's obviously a crime,
Speaker 1: and in a way you're stealing from the merchant that
Speaker 1: you're handing it to, and and it's fraud, etc. I
Speaker 1: would think you would have the right to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't even think that's an issue here. The police
Speaker 1: were called if he if he broke the law. We
Speaker 1: don't even know if that part is true. Yet again,
Speaker 1: I want everybody presumed innocent. But I just I can't
Speaker 1: get through I can't get past this tape, Missy, I
Speaker 1: can't right. The second point that I wanted to make,
Speaker 1: if you'd let me, is I would like people to
Speaker 1: take a step back because this did not happen because
Speaker 1: of race. That is a key component in it. That's
Speaker 1: a hot spot for people. But when this goes to court,
Speaker 1: for twenty years of testifying in court, race has never
Speaker 1: been brought up in any court testimony that I've ever
Speaker 1: taken place in. I know that's hard for people to
Speaker 1: handle because he is a black man. He did have
Speaker 1: his throat stepped on by a white man. But please
Speaker 1: take a second and look at step back from it
Speaker 1: for a second. This did not happen because he's a
Speaker 1: black man. This happened because of a poor choice by
Speaker 1: one or maybe the three other officers that were standing there.
Speaker 1: We don't know, because again we don't know what happened
Speaker 1: on the other side of the car. We don't know
Speaker 1: why he wasn't immediately put in the car. That I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't want to pass judgment on that.
Speaker 1: What I saw it disturbed me. He broke every law
Speaker 1: and rule of training. You do not ever leave anyone
Speaker 1: on their stomach because of positional asphyxia. You support somebody's
Speaker 1: head even when they're on their side, because your head
Speaker 1: weighs eight pounds and you could cut off your karate
Speaker 1: just by leaning your head. I've supported many a prisoner
Speaker 1: who we put on their side, who were under the
Speaker 1: influence of drugs, or who were injured, or that we
Speaker 1: had to wrestle. The first thing that we do after
Speaker 1: they're in cuffs, everybody would get him on a side,
Speaker 1: get him up. You don't leave anybody in that position.
Speaker 1: And the last thing, you never put any force on
Speaker 1: anybody's neck. That's disturbing. That man did not have to die.
Speaker 1: But please, people come back from a place of peace.
Speaker 1: The facts need to come out. Please don't make this
Speaker 1: black and white. Not all cops are bad. I was
Speaker 1: not a bad cop. I was a good cop. You
Speaker 1: sound like you sound like a well trained work professional.
Speaker 1: And I pray for his family because they didn't deserve this. No,
Speaker 1: they didn't this didn't have this, this was so this
Speaker 1: didn't have to happen. That's a sad part. But you
Speaker 1: people like you, Missy, obviously you are a seasoned pro
Speaker 1: and you know every aspect of this and everything I
Speaker 1: know about law enforcement, it's the same thing that you do. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we appreciate your call. Thanks for all you do twenty
Speaker 1: years on the job. We appreciate it. And you know,
Speaker 1: as far as the racial component that in reporting in
Speaker 1: some of this, I don't know anybody that has come
Speaker 1: out to defend this, not a single person, you know.
Speaker 1: The President tweeted, I have asked, at my request, the
Speaker 1: FBI and Department of Justice already well into an investigation
Speaker 1: as to the very sad and tragic at the Minnesota
Speaker 1: of George Floyd. I have asked for this investigation to
Speaker 1: be expedited, and greatly appreciate all the work done by
Speaker 1: local law enforcement. My heart goes out to George's family
Speaker 1: and friends, and justice will be served. Presidented that early also,
Speaker 1: and anyway, back to our phones, Let's say we have
Speaker 1: Brandon in Atlanta, WSB. Brandon, how are you my old
Speaker 1: home down south? I was talking to Neil Borts recently.
Speaker 1: He sends his regards from his sports bus. Anyway, what's
Speaker 1: going on, So we'd love for you to come back.
Speaker 1: We could probably offer you a large pay. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I'm not going to come and ruin the
Speaker 1: state that and force or vote for people that supported
Speaker 1: the policies that ruined this state. I mean they ruined it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, go ahead, sir. Well, I'm a real estate
Speaker 1: appraiser for a living stuff. You ever do, decide to
Speaker 1: come back here to let me know, I'll find he's
Speaker 1: the best deal possible. But I've got three cops in
Speaker 1: the family. One of them I sat when and taught
Speaker 1: last night is the section chief of the US Marshall's
Speaker 1: Office in the Georgia Division here. He's a quiet guy,
Speaker 1: and he looked me dead mine and said, ninety five
Speaker 1: percent of most people will show you that they're going
Speaker 1: to run or they're going to fight at immediate confrontation.
Speaker 1: He said, if they do not fight you, they probably
Speaker 1: are not going to very small chance. He's I've been
Speaker 1: on the job of twenty five years, he said, I've
Speaker 1: been in Columbia, been in lots of countries, kicking indoors,
Speaker 1: gang bangers. You name it Serving Warrens. For some of
Speaker 1: the nastiest people. He said, they either go down or
Speaker 1: they fight straight off the river. He said, this guy
Speaker 1: right here, if you'd just put him in a car,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been a problem. He showed no aggressiveness,
Speaker 1: He did not show that he wanted to fight. He said,
Speaker 1: there should have it. If they were so scared of him,
Speaker 1: they should have shackled his legs and put him in
Speaker 1: the backseat of the car. What they did makes no
Speaker 1: sense to anybody. I mean, this guy was a tactical
Speaker 1: training instructor with the Marshall's Office, and he said, his
Speaker 1: mind's blown. He said, I don't understand what I saw
Speaker 1: and what I saw him doing. Andina was going to
Speaker 1: join us later, and Bernie Kerrick was on the TV
Speaker 1: show Laws. I'll saying the same thing. Bertie was the
Speaker 1: head of New York State Prisons and the police chief
Speaker 1: in New York City. Never this never happens, You never
Speaker 1: do this. This is and for the amount of time
Speaker 1: and the amount of pressure on that guy's neck, it
Speaker 1: was a death sentence. As Sean, before I let you go,
Speaker 1: I have one question, Yes, sir, When they got rid
Speaker 1: of the Nixon tapes. That tells me that everything in
Speaker 1: the White House is recorded, this supposed meeting with Comey
Speaker 1: and Yates and all these people. Why can't we just
Speaker 1: pull the tape out and play it for what it
Speaker 1: is and find out what was said, and let the
Speaker 1: tape speak for itself. My understanding is the those days
Speaker 1: are long gone, and for good reason. A president that
Speaker 1: needs he, any president, needs the ability to talk confidentially
Speaker 1: about issues and throw ideas around, and he needs to
Speaker 1: do it in confidence or else. Nobody's ever going to
Speaker 1: give a president good advice if they think they're being recorded.
Speaker 1: Never Anyway, I appreciate you called my best, all my
Speaker 1: friends in Atlanta, matt Twin Cities, Minnesota. How are you, sir?
Speaker 1: Glad you called? Good marketing? Are good afternoons shown? Thanks
Speaker 1: for taking my call. Thank you. You're a police officer.
Speaker 1: He up in the Twin Cities. You're not for Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: But this is a horrible, just absolutely devastating thing that happened.
Speaker 1: But he and I don't have any insight, but something
Speaker 1: that happens in law enforcement circles occasionally when someone resists
Speaker 1: arrest and there's a struggle and they're possibly under the
Speaker 1: influence of drugs or something like that. They later die
Speaker 1: of what they called excited delirium. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're familiar with it at all, but it's probably
Speaker 1: the neck. The pressure on the neck probably didn't kill
Speaker 1: him because he was already in a lot of distress.
Speaker 1: And Matt, Matt, I have to passionately disagree with you.
Speaker 1: You know, google m martial arts strikes of to the
Speaker 1: karaatea to see if that. I don't know if anything
Speaker 1: will come up by sense. They showed me some videos today.
Speaker 1: Oh and if you if you target listen, to be honest,
Speaker 1: he could have died in fifteen seconds there, maybe less.
Speaker 1: I mean, the amount of force on this man's neck.
Speaker 1: Now you're talking about, okay, if it might have this
Speaker 1: delirium thing, but I think you're trying to thread a needle.
Speaker 1: You can't thread here because now think about it. Does
Speaker 1: your training allow you to go for somebody's neck or
Speaker 1: you train just the opposite, like Missy just said, just
Speaker 1: a neck restraint, not a karated at all, correct and
Speaker 1: and only only to the extent necessary. In fact, this
Speaker 1: went on this long is just inexplicable. It absolutely is. Yep,
Speaker 1: and again I don't have any insight, but I look,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you're right. I have no idea. It's the
Speaker 1: use of force. I've never seen anything like this. I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree, but this excited delirium thing does happen. I
Speaker 1: have heard of it. I understand, but I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I you know, I did this. We haven't done this
Speaker 1: in a long time, but um with my martial arts
Speaker 1: instructor today since Glenn and I'd like, all right, you
Speaker 1: know we'd started. I started doing arm drags into a chokehold,
Speaker 1: and after I did my pride. You know when we
Speaker 1: immediately once you once you feel that you've got both
Speaker 1: karateds with your arm around and a real choke hold.
Speaker 1: And again a trake hold is a different hole. At
Speaker 1: that point in time, you know you'll he'll tap. I said,
Speaker 1: all right, hold it for a few seconds. Let me
Speaker 1: see how long I can go. And I tapped out
Speaker 1: at like nine seconds maybe eight, because I was and
Speaker 1: I felt bad the rest of the day until like
Speaker 1: came on the Bradio program. Because it literally cuts the
Speaker 1: blood to your brain. Now we do it as part
Speaker 1: of our training, so you know what it feels like.
Speaker 1: We even do pain days. So because you're not going
Speaker 1: to be in a situation where you can fight to
Speaker 1: defend yourself successfully unless you can take pain and can
Speaker 1: take a hit. So we purposely take hits. I know
Speaker 1: it sounds a little nuts, but it's part of the
Speaker 1: training and I buy into it. I love the arts.
Speaker 1: I want to get better at it. Even though I'm
Speaker 1: an older person, I still do it. It's great exercise.
Speaker 1: John and Tampa, Florida. John, thank you for calling What's
Speaker 1: on your Mind w FLA. Thanks Sean, I finally once
Speaker 1: think you're wrong. We don't know what happened in between
Speaker 1: the two p A video. The cops did not just
Speaker 1: get him to the other side of a sub and
Speaker 1: decided to throw him on the ground. Something happened. As
Speaker 1: far as the death. The video does look damning, but
Speaker 1: we don't have an autopsy yet. I will give this
Speaker 1: cop the benefit of the doubt until we have an autopsy.
Speaker 1: There's one moment in that video where that cop where
Speaker 1: he put his hand and says he looks exhausted. That
Speaker 1: was a big man. When he looked at him off
Speaker 1: the ground to walk around the sub, he towered over
Speaker 1: this small Okay, now, now slow down, a second. All right,
Speaker 1: let's say it's the eight minute mark. He had full
Speaker 1: on pressure on the guy's neck for that period of time,
Speaker 1: pushing his neck, pushing his knee into his neck, and
Speaker 1: his face into the pavement. There's nothing that you're gonna
Speaker 1: say here that's gonna convince me, John, that is that
Speaker 1: is excessive force at a level I've never seen. Sean,
Speaker 1: we don't have the restive videoble you say this. The
Speaker 1: guy was. He was not a threat to any officer
Speaker 1: in that moment. You pull, you pick him up, he's cuffed,
Speaker 1: you put him in the car. You don't keep your
Speaker 1: your especially the neck. I am telling you, remember, Eric,
Speaker 1: I remember, and everybody was saying it was a chokehold.
Speaker 1: It wasn't actually technically, and I explained that part was
Speaker 1: a headlocked. If I'm talking, I'm breathing correct, Yes and no.
Speaker 1: I mean that may sound stue. What happens if, for example,
Speaker 1: well my sense put me in a chokehold today and
Speaker 1: he literally then put supplies. Well, it's seven years of training.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I'm the most knowledgeable man. I'm
Speaker 1: just somebody. I'm a student of the arts, and I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you when he put me in a chokehold
Speaker 1: and and he got me, meaning he has both karates
Speaker 1: and he applies pressure, I will I'm telling you I'm
Speaker 1: out in fifteen seconds. Out hold. Every cop has and
Speaker 1: every cop has to know that. It's a tragic loss
Speaker 1: in that how you look at it, when he stopped speaking,
Speaker 1: they should have been needed immediately checked his pulse and
Speaker 1: done more. It was you can't. You're missing my whole point.
Speaker 1: I am telling you that pressure on that neck, nobody
Speaker 1: can survive that. It's impossible. You cannot put that type
Speaker 1: of pressure on the neck like that period he's saying
Speaker 1: he can't breathe to the extent he's losing all blood
Speaker 1: flow to his brain. He couldn't breathe, and there's a
Speaker 1: certain panic that arises out of that. All right, Well
Speaker 1: more on the other side, now, a lot of news
Speaker 1: on the coronavirus front. We'll get back to this in
Speaker 1: our news round of information overload hour and much more
Speaker 1: as we continue, all right, our two Sean Hannity's Show
Speaker 1: eight hundred and nine four one. Sean, you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of this extravagant We do have so
Speaker 1: much other news that we're not getting to here today.
Speaker 1: The battle over social media, Now, this is an interesting battle, uh,
Speaker 1: for a lot of different reasons because there's certain well,
Speaker 1: Number one, the guy that Twitter has, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is just ridiculous of rabid Trumpeter, their head of site integrity,
Speaker 1: the guy in charge of this referred to the President's
Speaker 1: team in the White House as actual Nazis in the
Speaker 1: White House. Really, Uh, you gotta jack at Jack at
Speaker 1: Twitter seriously, the head of your site of integrity. Uh.
Speaker 1: So that's problematic in a lot of different ways. The
Speaker 1: President now talking about an executive order. There is a
Speaker 1: real significant issue that is involved here because of the
Speaker 1: fact of how these different you know, the characterization and
Speaker 1: this gets into a much deeper argument or debate that
Speaker 1: we'll have later on how they character arise a site
Speaker 1: like Twitter matters because some if in other words, liability
Speaker 1: laws kick in if they're gonna start editing content. And
Speaker 1: now the Attorney General will look into that. Joe Biden
Speaker 1: has had more more flubs in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: It is unbelievable. We'll try and get to that today.
Speaker 1: But the latest on the coronavirus opening the country opening safely,
Speaker 1: our medical a team means doctor Oz is back. How
Speaker 1: are you, sir, I'm doing very very well. Let me
Speaker 1: start before if I may. I'm sure, like all of us,
Speaker 1: you have you seen the video of this, this death
Speaker 1: of this guy George Floyd in Minneapolis. I saw it.
Speaker 1: It's horrible, horrible, Sam, sure that most of the country has.
Speaker 1: You know, we've become friends. You know. I'm into martial
Speaker 1: arts training, and I'm not saying I'm an expert. I've
Speaker 1: been doing it seven years and Frank, I am a student.
Speaker 1: I just like it. I train with it. It's a
Speaker 1: good workout and one of the things that as we
Speaker 1: practice situational self defense, will do, for example, an arm
Speaker 1: drag into a choke hold, and we do it on
Speaker 1: each other. And if I have the right hold and
Speaker 1: I do it properly and I put pressure, I'm literally
Speaker 1: cutting off the blood supply to both carodid arteries. When
Speaker 1: a trad hold, obviously that that is infinitely more dangerous,
Speaker 1: and I think every police department has banned that. Separate
Speaker 1: and apart the pressure that this officer is putting on
Speaker 1: his neck for almost for eight minutes or longer, straight
Speaker 1: into straight into the pavement, full on it looks like
Speaker 1: full on force. To me, no neck can survive. Doctor
Speaker 1: oz from from just my limited knowledge, is not being
Speaker 1: a doctor. When we when we train, we know that
Speaker 1: that's a targeted strike. If I strike somebody's carodo artery
Speaker 1: and a targeted strike and I hit it right, that
Speaker 1: person's going down to their knees. How dangerous. So many ways,
Speaker 1: so many ways. First off, within three seconds of truly
Speaker 1: including the caradons, the pistone pass out. That's why if
Speaker 1: you're skipping heartbeats, we get nervous if your heart rate
Speaker 1: drops below twenty because that means that you're going to
Speaker 1: start having syncope, which is fainting episodes. In this case,
Speaker 1: he obviously wasn't completely obstructing him initially because the poor
Speaker 1: man was crying out for help and just you know,
Speaker 1: asking saying he can't breathe. But what I just don't
Speaker 1: understand is apparently he lost consciousness, which is a very
Speaker 1: dangerous phenomenon because the arteries inside the neck could have
Speaker 1: been injured. He certainly could have been blocking the blood
Speaker 1: supplied to the brain even if you didn't destroy the artery,
Speaker 1: and you can be blocking the trachea, so no air
Speaker 1: can move or all of those scenarios, but then the
Speaker 1: man loses consciousness. I just don't understand what the point
Speaker 1: of continue means. A pot pressure there, he was not
Speaker 1: moving and when the paramedic came and I didn't see
Speaker 1: this video, but I've read reports on it, apparently checked
Speaker 1: the pulse and they quickly put him on a stretcher.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if he had a pulse then they declared
Speaker 1: him dead at the hospital, but you know, he may have.
Speaker 1: He made us come to the scene. I mean, I
Speaker 1: want to see this autopsy. I think we all deserve
Speaker 1: to have an honest assessment of what injuries happened to
Speaker 1: his neck. But the video of speech for itself, and
Speaker 1: police officers are trained in this and as you know,
Speaker 1: but Dan Bongino is going to join us later said,
Speaker 1: once somebody is not resisting and they're cuffed, it's over.
Speaker 1: The fight is over. The battle is over, and you're
Speaker 1: the professional, and you put them in the back of
Speaker 1: the car and if they need medical attention, they get
Speaker 1: medical attention. I tweeted out yesterday a series of tweets,
Speaker 1: and that is the things that we have learned. I'm
Speaker 1: going to read them off real quick. What we learned
Speaker 1: right and wrong, and it's very simple stuff. The experts,
Speaker 1: the models, the doctors were all wrong. China lied. We
Speaker 1: need to start manufacturing our own medical equipment and medicines
Speaker 1: at home. We learned we got to protect older Americans
Speaker 1: like they did in Florida and Texas and elsewhere, and
Speaker 1: if we don't protect them like New York, New Jersey, Sylvania, Michigan,
Speaker 1: it will be an unmitigated disaster. We learned travel bands,
Speaker 1: quarantines are smart, nod xenophobic. We learned that medical supply chains,
Speaker 1: food supply chains that never closed, were perfectly the people
Speaker 1: wore masks, and I talk about that example to you often.
Speaker 1: We learned that, you know, We learned who all the
Speaker 1: heroes are. Doctors like yourself, nurses, janitors, and hospitals. The
Speaker 1: manufacturers of our medical equipment kept New York alive, the
Speaker 1: entire food chain up to the grocery store clerks and
Speaker 1: the guys that stock the shelves. We learned that we
Speaker 1: can we can mobilize like no other country, the fastest
Speaker 1: largest medical mobilization in history. And you know, so these
Speaker 1: are solid lessons. How do we apply all that to reopening? Well,
Speaker 1: let me if I can't add one or two more.
Speaker 1: When you look at hospitals like mine, who are able
Speaker 1: to keep COVID boards, people places where people had COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen separate people who didn't have COVID nineteen and did
Speaker 1: not have crossover. And there was a beautiful article written
Speaker 1: from a Toguandhi up in Boston on this topic, and
Speaker 1: it served as cribs of all medical professionals learned, which is,
Speaker 1: wear a mask, keeps six feet away if you can't
Speaker 1: wear a mask, or vice versa, and then make sure
Speaker 1: you wash your hands. Those simple tactics dramatically change how
Speaker 1: these viruses move around hospitals. They will also change how
Speaker 1: they move around shopping malls and stadiums and places of worship.
Speaker 1: So the key steps that we need to take are
Speaker 1: going to include those three. And if we do that,
Speaker 1: and that's the main price we pay to be able
Speaker 1: to open our country up. I think most of us
Speaker 1: are patriotic and up and kind and up to each
Speaker 1: other because wearing the mask protects the person across from you,
Speaker 1: not you as much to do those things. And I
Speaker 1: know that there's people arguing back and forth, and I
Speaker 1: don't want this to be a politicized debate about masks.
Speaker 1: It's just a simple observation that in a hospital this works.
Speaker 1: So if it works in the most dangerous place possible,
Speaker 1: it's probably going to work in less dangerous places. Pretty well.
Speaker 1: We just had data overnight to suggesting that mass in
Speaker 1: general reduced the effectiveness by about fifty percent. Imagine changing
Speaker 1: how this virus behaves to more like you know, the
Speaker 1: classic flu. It would give us a lot of comfort.
Speaker 1: As he opened the country, I think that you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're obviously on top of this, but we learned
Speaker 1: a lot, and we learned some lessons the hard way.
Speaker 1: I don't think people purposely made decisions, you know. The
Speaker 1: one thing as all the projections and all the models
Speaker 1: and all the advice changed. And you know that I
Speaker 1: respect doctor Fauci. He's been wrong a lot on this.
Speaker 1: Now he's saying there may not be a second wave,
Speaker 1: and then he's saying we may not have to wear masks.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, can we please. It's frustrating to me,
Speaker 1: and it's frustrating to people that want to get back
Speaker 1: to work and get back to their normal life. It's
Speaker 1: frustrating everybody. But I tell you, the limited amount of
Speaker 1: insight that we had about these kinds of phenomenon was shocking.
Speaker 1: I mean, we sort of had data from the Second
Speaker 1: World War and how far soldiers who had strepped through coughed,
Speaker 1: and how far they bacteria went when they coughed. We
Speaker 1: had observations of school children with infectious disease, and we
Speaker 1: strapolated that to billions of people. We just didn't have
Speaker 1: much I'll take the biggest example was I thought, so.
Speaker 1: I think most doctors thought that the virus particle itself
Speaker 1: infected us, and so a mask would not work that
Speaker 1: well because the mask can't block a virus particle. It
Speaker 1: turns out, from what I can understand, it's mostly virus
Speaker 1: within a globule of spit, right, A little bit of
Speaker 1: is gesticulated material that leaves your amount. That means a
Speaker 1: droplet has to pass into your nose, not the virus itself. Well,
Speaker 1: a mask can stop a droplet bok go of coming
Speaker 1: out and going in. So now you begin to think, okay,
Speaker 1: common sense would dictate this would be an important thing
Speaker 1: for me to do. And I keep fielding questions about
Speaker 1: those signs of topics. But once you understand the principle,
Speaker 1: it makes sense. I'm impressed at how much we have
Speaker 1: learned so quickly, but it's disappointing how little we knew
Speaker 1: at the time. And now I think it gave lots
Speaker 1: of people the wrong information. And the modeling you spoke about,
Speaker 1: which has really been an embarrassment in many ways because
Speaker 1: the modeling speaks more the MODELU and what really happened
Speaker 1: and people people need big decisions based on these models,
Speaker 1: and they turned out to be not nearly as accurate
Speaker 1: as they at least they didn't. They projected themselves pretended
Speaker 1: to be more accurate than they ended up being, and
Speaker 1: that has hurt us a lot, you know. All Right,
Speaker 1: So now we're at this point where, by the way,
Speaker 1: did you see the information on Sweden? They went They
Speaker 1: had a less intrusive model, which they called the Hurting model,
Speaker 1: And in the beginning, I know, I stayed away from
Speaker 1: even talking about it because it didn't look like that
Speaker 1: was going to work to me, just my gut, not
Speaker 1: because anybody that did report on it wasn't reporting truth.
Speaker 1: I just had I had my suspicions. Turns out their
Speaker 1: death rate is now the highest. They have a high
Speaker 1: death rate, but if you ask the two things. Ire
Speaker 1: on to point out, first, we really should all be
Speaker 1: rooting for these different countries who are trying things, because
Speaker 1: what if it worked. I mean, they went and did
Speaker 1: something different from us. They're paying a price for it.
Speaker 1: But I wanted took people to try things if they
Speaker 1: thought it was going to work with their people, and
Speaker 1: they're different than we are to get it to work.
Speaker 1: But here's the most profound thing that leadership them of
Speaker 1: their health system is said, and he was very sanguine about.
Speaker 1: He said, listen, you might not like what we're doing,
Speaker 1: but you're eventually going to do what we're doing because
Speaker 1: when you open, you're basically like us. So if you
Speaker 1: open your state up and you limit the number of
Speaker 1: people in a restaurant, you have people to wear masks
Speaker 1: and you ask them socially distance, you're basically doing sweet.
Speaker 1: You're just doing it without the shutdown and without the
Speaker 1: lessons learned that we achieved by shutting down. So I
Speaker 1: think everyone is happy we shut down and got some
Speaker 1: of those important messages clear and everyone understands what we
Speaker 1: need to do. But now we basically are moving towards
Speaker 1: as Swedish models because we're doing what they're already doing.
Speaker 1: They're just a couple of months ahead of us because
Speaker 1: they never shut down. What about and I guess there's
Speaker 1: a risk in everyday life had we not had the
Speaker 1: travel bands, the numerous ones, the first one after ten
Speaker 1: days after the first identified case, if we didn't have
Speaker 1: the quarantine, if we didn't do the shutdown, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it's an estimate, but in my mind, exponentially,
Speaker 1: I mean, millions more potential lives who are at risk
Speaker 1: here are hundreds of thousands minimum. Am I wrong? I
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think we were way behind when
Speaker 1: we started. And even the one week difference in when
Speaker 1: Stage shutdown compared to when New York shutdown made a
Speaker 1: huge difference to those spaces. And I think part of
Speaker 1: the reason California wasn't hurts badly. And they are many factors.
Speaker 1: They are not quickly, they're not as dasty, pot you know, populated,
Speaker 1: you know, but they weren't as overwhelmed with foreigner, foreign
Speaker 1: folks carrying virus. But part of it was they stopped
Speaker 1: before the virus they progressed that much, whereas in New York,
Speaker 1: you and I are both year it really having already
Speaker 1: exploded by the time we shut down, and if we
Speaker 1: had made some of the other moves, it would have
Speaker 1: been even worse. So I mean, I'm a glass half
Speaker 1: empty guy. I was horrible. We lost one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: American lives, but another hand, it could have been many,
Speaker 1: many Moore, and some of the things we did were
Speaker 1: very difficult to imagine happening even in February, and yet
Speaker 1: brave leadership at every level let it progress. The question
Speaker 1: now is where does the grave leadership take us? Now?
Speaker 1: Are we willing to open? How much are we willing
Speaker 1: to tolerate. I don't think we're going to extinguish this virus.
Speaker 1: It's going to continue. They're going to be more people dying.
Speaker 1: They're going to be these brush fires that begin to
Speaker 1: expand and get start to scare out individual states. So
Speaker 1: we've got to develop some strategies to how to keep
Speaker 1: the states open, or at least figure out what parts
Speaker 1: of what states to shut down if they get into trouble.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about a vaccine. Now, we keep
Speaker 1: hearing there are a lot in the pipeline. I've heard
Speaker 1: over twenty now separate real paths to a vaccine. But
Speaker 1: then on the other side of that there, I know
Speaker 1: they're going to be people that don't trust the vaccine.
Speaker 1: I know people that don't want to vaccinate their own kids.
Speaker 1: I personally believe in medical science and vaccines and the
Speaker 1: science behind it. I don't know if it's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent perfect, but that's my personal choice. I like to
Speaker 1: let people make their own choices. But what about a vaccine?
Speaker 1: How soon do you think we might be able to
Speaker 1: get one? I think one of at least one or
Speaker 1: two of these vaccines that you mentioned will be functional
Speaker 1: by early part of twenty twenty one. I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: they're dedicated because you won't have enough initially to the
Speaker 1: sixest people, the people, most vulnerable people, nursing homes, folks
Speaker 1: with multiple risk factors, diabetics, hypertensives, obese folks, and then
Speaker 1: slowed through as the population. But to your point, between
Speaker 1: a third and a half of the US population, depending
Speaker 1: on the surveys you look at, say they're not going
Speaker 1: to get the vaccine the day, which is again, I'm
Speaker 1: a physician, you know I've seen what happens when people
Speaker 1: aren't vaccinated. I personally would prefer people get a vaccine.
Speaker 1: I get a Vactionally, I didn't get a flu shout
Speaker 1: of there, and by the way, so do I and
Speaker 1: people people will saying to me, Hannity, Yeah, you keep
Speaker 1: saying I need to wear a man's No, don't worry.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling what people want to do. But if
Speaker 1: wearing a mask gets me to that baseball and football game,
Speaker 1: you know how I feel about that because I say
Speaker 1: it ten times a day. But doctor roj' been so
Speaker 1: generous as always with your time and expertise. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to a phone call here. Let's
Speaker 1: say hi to Lloyd Houston, Texas. Hey Lloyd, how are
Speaker 1: you glad you called? Sir? Hey Sean, how are you, sir?
Speaker 1: I'm good? What's going on? We got a minute? In
Speaker 1: ten seconds, It's all yours. I'll be quick. I'm an
Speaker 1: older white gentleman, and I agree totally what what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. I do not agree with the rioting and
Speaker 1: the also what the media is doing to help format
Speaker 1: that rioting. That has to stop. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: do you think of now now innocent people other innocent people? Uh?
Speaker 1: And again the president is very clear he's moving towards
Speaker 1: an expedited justice acting immediately, and all of that is happening.
Speaker 1: The officers are fired. We're gonna have an investigation, and
Speaker 1: I would suspect that these guys are going to be
Speaker 1: brought at least the guy doing this, probably others brought
Speaker 1: up on charges. Um. You know, we have a we
Speaker 1: also have evidence here and you know, but hurting businesses
Speaker 1: that are already struggling, putting other people's lives at risk,
Speaker 1: that is not an answer. You want to peacefully protest,
Speaker 1: Peacefully protest, don't hurt other people in the process. Let justice.
Speaker 1: It's sometimes, as we know in Lakomi, the cave case
Speaker 1: way too slow, but it will happen. Going to accelerate
Speaker 1: our big infrastructure programs. We have the Empire Station project,
Speaker 1: which is building a new Penn station, which is long overdue.
Speaker 1: That Penn station has been torturing people for too long.
Speaker 1: Let's now accelerate the Empire pen project while the ridership
Speaker 1: is low and when we need the jobs. Accelerating La
Speaker 1: Guardia Airport, which is in the be the first new
Speaker 1: airport in this nation in twenty five years. Traffic is low,
Speaker 1: passenger volume is lower. Let's accelerate that construction now, and
Speaker 1: let's do things that we've been talking about for a
Speaker 1: long time, but we've never actually pulled the trigger on
Speaker 1: a US Just listening to this, how out of touch
Speaker 1: is the governor of New York. Let's accelerate, let's rebuild
Speaker 1: all a Penn station. But those that don't even know
Speaker 1: what Penn station is in New York. Okay, it's the
Speaker 1: underground system that includes subways and trains. They go to
Speaker 1: New York, Long Island, et cetera, New Jersey, the subways
Speaker 1: they go everywhere. You're gonna accelerate. You don't have the
Speaker 1: money to accelerate that. The Second Avenue subway that they've
Speaker 1: been trying to do for what was what has it
Speaker 1: been thirty years? Probably longer, right, forty years, that they
Speaker 1: never get done. Now they're gonna ask Red State citizens
Speaker 1: to pay for their dream wish list. Everything's free, let's redo.
Speaker 1: Loguardia Airport. LaGuardia is always under construction. It is the
Speaker 1: worst airport pretty much in the entire country. And it's
Speaker 1: always under construction. If I can't remember a time it
Speaker 1: has been under construction, I mean, and you get nothing
Speaker 1: in terms of anything from the State of New York.
Speaker 1: Well maybe they should have thought about these things. What
Speaker 1: did the mayor and his wife, what did they spend
Speaker 1: nine hundred million, one billion, almost one million dollars on
Speaker 1: her Get Healthy program? And nobody knows where the money
Speaker 1: is that Charlie McCrae, the Blasio's wife, and however they
Speaker 1: have never been held accountable. Okay, then you've got Cuomo
Speaker 1: spent seven hundred and fifty million New York tax dollars
Speaker 1: literally on a solar project in upstate New York. It failed,
Speaker 1: it's mothballed, that got bought out by somebody. Six hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars on a micro chip company that didn't go
Speaker 1: well either, ninety million on a light bulb, this all
Speaker 1: new Green deal crap. And now he's saying that what
Speaker 1: the people that live in states that elect responsible legislators
Speaker 1: and senators and governors that balance their budgets, fund their pensions,
Speaker 1: live within their means, have better infrastructure, better maintained than
Speaker 1: all of New York, and all the money that they
Speaker 1: get from taxes from taxpayers in New York. On the
Speaker 1: top of the New York City, they have their own
Speaker 1: set of taxes, you know. Now you got Comrade de
Speaker 1: Blasio wants what he wants, a nine billion dollar check.
Speaker 1: It ain't happening, say, isn't coronavirus related? And on top
Speaker 1: of it all, nobody in New York can even think
Speaker 1: of a way to open up New York safely. They
Speaker 1: have no plan. It's just a hodgepodge mix of everything,
Speaker 1: you know, throwing up against the wall. And you see
Speaker 1: this all over the place, all these democratic governors. The
Speaker 1: Commonwealth governor North remember him. We'll deliver the baby, and
Speaker 1: then we'll make sure the babies comfortable. Then we'll let
Speaker 1: the mother decide in consultation with their doctor, what we're
Speaker 1: gonna let the baby liver die. I mean that lunatic.
Speaker 1: He's not wearing a mask, telling everybody in the Commonwealth
Speaker 1: of Virginia to wear a mask. You got the Democratic
Speaker 1: New Mexico governor violating the coronavirus order kept a business open,
Speaker 1: Why so she could buy jewelry. Oh. The Michigan governor,
Speaker 1: now we know her husband, Oh it was only a joke,
Speaker 1: makes a phone call because he wants to get his
Speaker 1: boat in the water. People in Michigan they can't even
Speaker 1: cut their lawn. And then we find out that the
Speaker 1: governor governor shut down. Whitmer said about her husband that
Speaker 1: he went to their second home to rake leaves in
Speaker 1: the northern part of the state, and he came back
Speaker 1: right after he raked the leaves. But when she ordered
Speaker 1: the opening in some of these more rural areas of Michigan,
Speaker 1: she said to people, now, don't rush up there and
Speaker 1: overwhelm the area. Well, why did her husband go up there?
Speaker 1: And it's it's insane, you know, it is unbelievable. I've
Speaker 1: never seen anything like this, you know. And another thing
Speaker 1: to be angry about, CDC suggesting coronavirus fatality rate higher
Speaker 1: than the flu but eight times lower than the models
Speaker 1: and the estimates from the experts that you know, originally
Speaker 1: were projecting two and a half million dead Americas. You know,
Speaker 1: you have the great doctor Fauci. I have respect for
Speaker 1: doctor Fauci. He's dedicated his life to saving lives. But
Speaker 1: he's he hasn't been it anywhere close to perfect in this.
Speaker 1: You know, Earl in mid March saying you don't need
Speaker 1: to wear masks. Now he's saying you have to wear
Speaker 1: a mask. Then he changed his too, and now he's
Speaker 1: back to you know, well, the second wave now of
Speaker 1: COVID may never happen, and mask wearing is symbolic respectful, Okay,
Speaker 1: it would be my term, but you do what you want.
Speaker 1: But they don't know what the hell they're talking about. Now.
Speaker 1: A lot of it is because China lied. A lot
Speaker 1: of it is people made, you know, the best guests
Speaker 1: they have. This is you know, this is this is
Speaker 1: art as much as science. Sometimes when you're in the
Speaker 1: early stages of this, you gotta go with your gut
Speaker 1: here or there. The best person with the best gut
Speaker 1: ended up being Donald Trump. Travel band quarantines, subsequent travel bands.
Speaker 1: They were impeaching him at the time. You know, the media, sensationalism,
Speaker 1: what they told the public that would happen and didn't happen,
Speaker 1: and reality. Now, look, I'm pro life. I believe every
Speaker 1: life is a gift from God, and I want everybody healthy.
Speaker 1: And hopefully we're going to learn the lessons that I
Speaker 1: outline yesterday on the show, because if we look at
Speaker 1: the states that we're successful, we can learn from Governor
Speaker 1: de Santis, we can learn from Governor Abbott and even
Speaker 1: Governor Camp who I was critical of early on. I
Speaker 1: thought the tattoo parlor idea opening up, and the nail
Speaker 1: salon was a little nuts. So I was wrong on
Speaker 1: the nail salon. I still don't know about the tattoo thing.
Speaker 1: Why do I know them? Maybe they maybe they can
Speaker 1: cut out an area where the guy's just reaching under
Speaker 1: the plexiglass and do that. I have no idea. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't recommend getting a tattooed. Now. Wait, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to put people out of work. If you can
Speaker 1: figure out how to do it safely, I was gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: send Linda, She'll go get a tattoo for everybody. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, never, never, No, you don't you want to
Speaker 1: hear the mean side of me as a dad. My
Speaker 1: dad would kill me if I did that. I just
Speaker 1: told my kids, I just you know, burn it off.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm like, no, that's not happening. Oh all right,
Speaker 1: let's get to our And by the way, the debacle
Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan literally the single dumbest
Speaker 1: decisions in this entire pandemic. And then in New York
Speaker 1: it gets worse because the governor sneaks into a budget
Speaker 1: bill legal protections so that hospitals and nursing homes that
Speaker 1: donated a million bucks to him in twenty eighteen. They
Speaker 1: can't get sued as a result of what happened here. Well,
Speaker 1: putting COVID nineteen patients in the nursing homes was a
Speaker 1: bad idea from the get go. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to jim Is in Illinois. Jim, Hi, how are you
Speaker 1: glad you called? Sir Sean. I'm just thought this governor
Speaker 1: Clomos absolutely culpable for the death of those people that
Speaker 1: he sent to these nursing homes and the nursing home people,
Speaker 1: the innocent citizens that we're living there, thinking that they're gonna,
Speaker 1: you had some normal life in their final days. And
Speaker 1: then this guy sends this you know, uh, he's just
Speaker 1: so and then he's so full of it. He's full
Speaker 1: of crap, trying to blame the president who who's done everything,
Speaker 1: been over backwards to enable these to give these governors,
Speaker 1: including him, every tool available, and he bypasses that system
Speaker 1: and sends it instead of sending him to the facilities
Speaker 1: provide by our president, he sends them to these nursing
Speaker 1: homes by his mandate. It was no one else. Oh yeah, no, no, First,
Speaker 1: he's blaming the nursing homes. I mean, there's a whole
Speaker 1: pattern of excuses here. He lashed out at the nursing homes.
Speaker 1: It's all about money. I'm like what. And then he said,
Speaker 1: you're responsible for your own PPE I'm like It took
Speaker 1: my breath away, because this is a guy that demanded
Speaker 1: everything from the federal government because he didn't listen to
Speaker 1: his own health task force. And they had no ventilators
Speaker 1: in the city or in the state, and they had
Speaker 1: two separate studies saying you're gonna need them, and they
Speaker 1: didn't get them. But Trump made it work. He got
Speaker 1: it done for them. Man, the facilities, built the hospitals,
Speaker 1: you know, gave all the ppee equipment. I mean, the biggest, largest,
Speaker 1: fastest medical mobilization in the history of mankind. And thank god,
Speaker 1: these manufacturers didn't shut down, and the food supply chains
Speaker 1: didn't shut down. On New York completely would have died.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. I'm so angry about it. I can't words,
Speaker 1: can't describe it, and it is beyond any comprehension I have.
Speaker 1: That was the one constant that always made sense the elderly,
Speaker 1: those with underlying conditions, those with compromise of immune systems
Speaker 1: are going to be the most vulnerable. They were last word, Jim, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, and I'm right there with you, Shun. And
Speaker 1: I don't know who's gonna hold him accountable. He needs
Speaker 1: to be held accountable. These people cannot keep sliding and
Speaker 1: getting and just passing the buck off to somebody somebody
Speaker 1: else for political gain and not having any consequences for
Speaker 1: their for the murder. It's especially murdered. What he did unbelievable,
Speaker 1: It's it's unreal. Then you got this situation. I can't
Speaker 1: even watch this video anymore. It upsets me so much
Speaker 1: that I cannot believe that this went on for between
Speaker 1: six and eight minutes. It is full forced knee head
Speaker 1: to the pavement, no resisting, handcuffed. It's over. It was
Speaker 1: over when it started. Put him in the back of
Speaker 1: the car. Somebody stand up and say stop. Unbelievable. I
Speaker 1: don't get it. It drives me nuts, all, you know, frustrating.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Jim and Utah. Jim, how
Speaker 1: are you? Thanks on veterans and hand radio greetings and
Speaker 1: so highlights. Oh you're you're great. The President's great Kayley
Speaker 1: is amazing. So highlights. Wife is a nurse. And by
Speaker 1: the way, wait you know that you're a great The
Speaker 1: President's great Kayley is amazing. Okay, keep going. So you
Speaker 1: want to hear a little factoid about Kaylee mcinanti. Lay
Speaker 1: it on me, brother. She once interned on my TV show,
Speaker 1: Your show's amazing. How's that? Well that worked for you
Speaker 1: a little late, but okay, a little late, shaking things
Speaker 1: up a little late on no recovery. So anyways, real quick.
Speaker 1: So wife say, registered urs in southern Utah, does home
Speaker 1: care and hospice, assisted living and some work for the state.
Speaker 1: Her sister is at a hospital administrator in southern Utah
Speaker 1: for the big one of the big hospitals, the HMO
Speaker 1: down there. Asking my wife in the beginning of March,
Speaker 1: when should I panic? When should I worry? When should
Speaker 1: I get nervous? I'll let you know. I'll let you know.
Speaker 1: I'll let you know. March or April, same thing, may
Speaker 1: same thing. Her sister's going nuts. Well, it's to shrink
Speaker 1: wrap the kids, shrink wrap the daring kids, shrink wrap
Speaker 1: the parents house. The bureaucracy at the big HM is
Speaker 1: I'm like the sky is falling in. What do you do?
Speaker 1: And my life sister, he says at the fourth town
Speaker 1: us from the models are pretty much what seeing broadcasts
Speaker 1: is what's occurring as make it are crazy. So it's
Speaker 1: just it just goes to show you that even everybody's
Speaker 1: under the banner of the CDC and the organization in
Speaker 1: the States that man as information is just flying back
Speaker 1: and forth, and it's one side of the other. One
Speaker 1: person in or assistant living facility that you worked for
Speaker 1: part time, ever had any symptoms one of the nurses
Speaker 1: test the positive kicked or loose for two weeks, but
Speaker 1: should have never been shut down. Of course, we're out
Speaker 1: in the rural areas all it's a bit busier. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you my anecdotal information about you know,
Speaker 1: I think we learned a lot. One of the things
Speaker 1: we learned is those that never closed the food supply chain,
Speaker 1: medical supply chain, you know, all the way through the
Speaker 1: guy stock in the shelves. They all wore masks and
Speaker 1: they didn't get it. And at least where I live,
Speaker 1: every store I've been to, I've been doing a number
Speaker 1: of them. It's not just one. I go to a
Speaker 1: number of stores. I've been trying, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't I'm trying to spend money everywhere. Actually, I'm
Speaker 1: buying more food. I'm putting weight back on because I'm
Speaker 1: buying too much food from you know, my favorite restaurants,
Speaker 1: because I know these guys are suffering, they're dying, and
Speaker 1: they're like family to me. I think I only go
Speaker 1: to a few places and I love these guys. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you for a good call, Jim. We wish you
Speaker 1: the best in Utah. We have about ninety seconds. Hell,
Speaker 1: let's give it to Paul and Oklahoma. Paul, Hi, how
Speaker 1: are you glad you called? Good afternoon, mister Hannity, Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 1: I think we need to ditch these masks. I think
Speaker 1: that we wake up from the time that every morning
Speaker 1: when we wake up and we go we go out
Speaker 1: and face the world, that we have risk that we
Speaker 1: take safely to do everything. I mean, I would have
Speaker 1: to just stay at home, all right. So you're saying nobody,
Speaker 1: you don't want any want to have masks on, or
Speaker 1: you choose yourself. I'm not saying that. Why do you
Speaker 1: think doctors wear them in operating rooms? Why do you
Speaker 1: think painters when they spray, they use masks. And I
Speaker 1: made that mistake once when I was a house painter
Speaker 1: and a car paint I used to paint. I painted
Speaker 1: a truck with imaran My lungs burned forever because I
Speaker 1: didn't have the proper respirator. Why do people wear masks
Speaker 1: can aspirate things. But I mean we can go through
Speaker 1: we can go through our entire lives scared of our
Speaker 1: own shadows. I'm not listen. I'll tell you I'm not
Speaker 1: wearing it about me. I would rather I personally, I
Speaker 1: am not afraid of this virus for myself at all.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not trying but but but I do
Speaker 1: have contact with other people that have underlying conditions. As
Speaker 1: I've been saying, I'm gonna wear it because it's it's
Speaker 1: a short period of time we're talking about, and it's temporary,
Speaker 1: and I'm doing it for moms and dads, grandmas and
Speaker 1: grandpa's that would be susceptible if I contracted it and
Speaker 1: gave it to them, and I'd be asymptomatic for five days.
Speaker 1: From the time I was born, when I drew my
Speaker 1: first first breath, this world has tried to kill me,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it's tried to do the same to
Speaker 1: every human being on earth. We can't. We're got it.
Speaker 1: We've got ourselves in a situation right now. We don't
Speaker 1: get people back to work. We're not gonna have to
Speaker 1: worry about it anymore. I'm all. But I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: in New York the grocery store, the guys that stocked
Speaker 1: the shelves wore the mass and none of them and
Speaker 1: none of the cashiers got sick either. They worked all right.
Speaker 1: I gotta run. Appreciate your thoughts though, Thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us. Paul eight hundred nine four one, Sean told
Speaker 1: free number. When we come back. The latest out of Minnesota,
Speaker 1: the tragedy that never should have happened, George Floyd straight
Speaker 1: a hud. Stay right here for our final news round
Speaker 1: up and information overload. So in an effort to try
Speaker 1: and cure this disease, I am stating exactly what everyone
Speaker 1: else has witnessed, and that is racism. UM. Today is
Speaker 1: a sad day for Minneapolis. It's a sad day for America. UM,
Speaker 1: it's a sad day for the world. I want to
Speaker 1: remind all of the people that are in the streets protesting.
Speaker 1: You have every absolute right to be angry, to be upset,
Speaker 1: to be mad, to express your anger. However, you have
Speaker 1: no right to perpetrate violence and harm on the very
Speaker 1: communities that you say that you are standing up for.
Speaker 1: We need peace and calm in our streets, and I
Speaker 1: am begging you for that. All right, news round up information,
Speaker 1: overload our some of the sounds of protesters, and of
Speaker 1: course some of the looting and writing that took place
Speaker 1: last night. That was the City Council Vice President Andrea
Speaker 1: Jenkins urging Minneapolis residents not to perpetuate violence. We have
Speaker 1: some updates on the story. Al Sharpton apparently is headed
Speaker 1: to Minneapolis, he said. He said today in Minneapolis, he'll
Speaker 1: meet with local clergy activists, lead a prayer vigil at
Speaker 1: the site where George Floyd was killed Eric Gardner's Mamela
Speaker 1: company Sharpton as they go there. The Minneapolis mayor wants
Speaker 1: the governor to call the national hard to quell the riots.
Speaker 1: We know that there is you know, temperature is very
Speaker 1: very hot. I've gone over this in great detail. Did
Speaker 1: it last night? Did it earlier? In the program? There
Speaker 1: seemed to be zero resisting of any arrest, and once
Speaker 1: somebody is handcuffed, and once they're not resisting, you put
Speaker 1: them in the back of the car. And there seems
Speaker 1: no justifiable reason whatsoever to put the knee on the
Speaker 1: neck of mister Floyd like this or anywhere between six
Speaker 1: and eight minutes. Basic one oh one training in any
Speaker 1: police academy. You know that the neck and chokes, in
Speaker 1: particular in this case, a knee literally pinning the neck
Speaker 1: down into the pavement is extraordinarily dangerous for ten seconds,
Speaker 1: never mind six minutes, and it ended up in the
Speaker 1: death of George Floyd. A lot of anger justifiable from
Speaker 1: my vantage point watching this, I know we don't rush
Speaker 1: to judgment. We always give a presumption of innocence. There's
Speaker 1: nothing in this videotape that shows that any proper procedures
Speaker 1: by any trained police officers were followed here, and people
Speaker 1: look at it. This guy is saying, I can't breathe
Speaker 1: again and again, and now they've all been fired. The
Speaker 1: four officers on the scene there, and there is an
Speaker 1: imminent movement towards a potential arrest in this case. For sure.
Speaker 1: The President I've been reading his statement has gone out there.
Speaker 1: He has ordered the DOJ the FBI to investigate George
Speaker 1: Floyd's death at my request. The FBI Department of Justice
Speaker 1: are already well into an investigation as to the very sad,
Speaker 1: tragic death in Minnesota of George Floyd called it a
Speaker 1: very very sad situation when he was going on his
Speaker 1: trip to see the launch that was then well didn't
Speaker 1: take off of SpaceX and the rocket ship. The President,
Speaker 1: you know, also has been very clear they want to
Speaker 1: expedite this as quickly as possible. Anyway, here to discuss this,
Speaker 1: we have Joe Collins is with us. He's a Navy veteran.
Speaker 1: He's a Republican congressional candidate for the California forty third district,
Speaker 1: that is Maxie Waters District. Dan Bongino is back with US,
Speaker 1: former Secret Service officer, Fox News contributor, has his own
Speaker 1: podcast and has also on the NYPD for a time. Joe,
Speaker 1: let's look at this from a standpoint and your take
Speaker 1: on it. We've all seen this video re racked and
Speaker 1: re racked over and over again, and I, for the
Speaker 1: life of me, cannot understand why somebody did not step
Speaker 1: in and say stop once the person is not resisting
Speaker 1: in the person's coffed, it's over and he and I
Speaker 1: didn't see any resistance on top of that, Yes, I
Speaker 1: absolutely had to be first. I want to say thanks
Speaker 1: for having me on your show. And I will say this,
Speaker 1: the excessive use of police force in this situation is
Speaker 1: utterly disgusting to me. But this is something that we
Speaker 1: see in the black community all the time, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm very disappointed in the people that are
Speaker 1: also writing right now. But one question we have to
Speaker 1: ask ourselves is when are when does our so called
Speaker 1: black leaders going to stand up and fight for the
Speaker 1: rights of Black America right because you see this over
Speaker 1: and over and over again, and these are these are
Speaker 1: things that are prevalent in our communities, and these are
Speaker 1: things that should be fall forward by our black leaders.
Speaker 1: Our Maxine Waters is in our in our and our
Speaker 1: Colent Bookers and Kamala Harris and these people do absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing for us. So it disgusted me to see these
Speaker 1: things happen over and over and over again. And unfortunately,
Speaker 1: at the we're at a point where you know, the
Speaker 1: writing is not going to solve anything. You know, some
Speaker 1: more senseless murders is not going to solve any thing,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to you know, go against the police
Speaker 1: force is not going to solve anything. We have to
Speaker 1: start taking it up on ourselves to create legislation that
Speaker 1: is going to stop things like this from happening on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. But I am utterly disgusted by what
Speaker 1: I've seen on the video. Dan Bunge. You know, you've
Speaker 1: been trained by the Secret Service, You've been trained by NYPD.
Speaker 1: They have some of the best training facilities in the country.
Speaker 1: Although they have incidents. You know, again, it's not the
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of officers that protect and serve their communities,
Speaker 1: and that always needs to be pointed out because doing
Speaker 1: that job as an extraordinarily dangerous one. But you're also
Speaker 1: you're trained in mixed martial arts like I am, and
Speaker 1: we talk about it for hours on end, and you
Speaker 1: and I both know that if you go for somebody's track,
Speaker 1: if you hit their karated, if they're the amount of
Speaker 1: pressure that was put on this man's neck, George Floyd's
Speaker 1: neck is enormous for that period of time is a
Speaker 1: death sentence. We know just from our training it is
Speaker 1: that dangerous. Oh yeah, and I'm glad you started. I
Speaker 1: really hope that this doesn't grossly stereotype the overwhelming majority
Speaker 1: of men and women in law enforcement who I've worked with,
Speaker 1: who do a terrific job. Having said that, this individual
Speaker 1: is not one of those people. You know, just for
Speaker 1: a moment, I remember doing a Fox and Friends appearings.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Ainsley one morning and it was
Speaker 1: a tragic story about a cop killing himself. She said, Dan,
Speaker 1: tell the audience how dangerous of a job this is,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, you know, it's interesting, Ainsley. I
Speaker 1: get a text twice a year from friends of mine
Speaker 1: in the NYTD about a guy I went through with
Speaker 1: the academy, worked with or something who died. I said,
Speaker 1: can you imagine being in the radio profession or TV
Speaker 1: and getting a text twice a year that one of
Speaker 1: your colleagues was killed in the line of duty or
Speaker 1: someone you knew. So the overwhelming majority of cops that
Speaker 1: they would do great work. Again, this guy was not
Speaker 1: one of them. I get it. There probably is going
Speaker 1: to be a lot of information that comes out, and Sean,
Speaker 1: that'll be critical for telling the whole story, but it
Speaker 1: is not necessary anymore to tell the use of force
Speaker 1: story at that acute moment of time. And what I
Speaker 1: mean by that is this, we need to know what happened,
Speaker 1: for George's, for mister Lloyd's family, for everyone. The public
Speaker 1: needs to know what happens to start to finish. But
Speaker 1: the video is crystal clear. There is no that this
Speaker 1: is not opaque. The man had a knee on his
Speaker 1: neck for nine minutes. When I by the way, it
Speaker 1: wasn't just on It wasn't just on his day. His
Speaker 1: neck was pinned down to the pavement. And he's and
Speaker 1: he's keeps for repeating, I'll play it again. He keeps
Speaker 1: for repeating, I can't breathe. He's not a threat to
Speaker 1: anybody in that moment, and from what I could see,
Speaker 1: looked handcuffed Sean and the Golden Rule. I remember when
Speaker 1: I got out of the ATA, a couple of the
Speaker 1: more skilled police officers who've been around a while I
Speaker 1: worked in East New York Brooklyn was a dangerous everybody.
Speaker 1: I was a young kid is in my twenties. What
Speaker 1: does anybody know in their twenties? You know, I mean, really,
Speaker 1: what do you know in your early twenties? And I
Speaker 1: remember the saying to me, listen that stuff in the
Speaker 1: Academy's terrific. Keep it in the back of your toolbox.
Speaker 1: But here's the reality. Don't ever forget this is what
Speaker 1: they told me. Don't ever forget the hardened fish. I
Speaker 1: said this on your show last night. Here's the rule.
Speaker 1: When the guy or the woman is in cuffs and
Speaker 1: the resistance stops, the fight is over. End of story.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you just arrested a stherial pedophile,
Speaker 1: if you arrested Charlie Manson. It doesn't matter when the
Speaker 1: cuffs are on end and there because people can still
Speaker 1: spit on you, kick you, and the resistance stuff. The
Speaker 1: fight is overman, watch the video. You've done this, John,
Speaker 1: You've been on the ground. You know what this is.
Speaker 1: I said last night, and I'll tell you again. Watch.
Speaker 1: The officer's right foot is on the neck. The right
Speaker 1: foot is light. Why do I know it's light because
Speaker 1: he's moving his toes. That's called the neon belly position.
Speaker 1: And the right foot is light meant stuff means the
Speaker 1: left leg is. It means all his weight was on
Speaker 1: the guy's neck. You can see it in the video.
Speaker 1: Really disturbing stuff, you know, Joe Collins, I understand the
Speaker 1: justifiable anger here. We just heard from the vice president
Speaker 1: of the city council. I understand there's going to be
Speaker 1: more protesting tonight. I never quite understand everybody should. I
Speaker 1: feel the outrage everybody feels. We all feel it peaceful
Speaker 1: protesting for justice, Okay, that that is our American right
Speaker 1: to do so. But when you see the videos and
Speaker 1: people see looting television and clothes and looting a liquor store,
Speaker 1: I saw, how does any of that help anything? It
Speaker 1: absolutely doesn't. It doesn't. And that just shows the peered
Speaker 1: lack of leadership and that community, that peered lack of
Speaker 1: leadership in that city. And I can tell you how
Speaker 1: I know. We've been organizing protests all across South Los
Speaker 1: Angeles whenever they did that unconstitutional shutdown. We have yet
Speaker 1: had any violence that at our rally, you know, regardless
Speaker 1: of whatever the situation is. So we need strong leaders
Speaker 1: to stand up and show these people if you're going
Speaker 1: to protest, this is the way you do it. But
Speaker 1: the looting, the stealing, the violence that's occurring after this,
Speaker 1: it's own call for. And I'm very disappointed in the
Speaker 1: leadership in that in that city and this he was
Speaker 1: a Christian man you know, he was a Christian man
Speaker 1: who was trying to get his life back together. And
Speaker 1: I heard I heard a significant other say or earlier
Speaker 1: today that this is not what he would want. He
Speaker 1: wouldn't want people out here looting, He wouldn't want people
Speaker 1: out here committing violence. He wants grace, He wants people
Speaker 1: to to sit and think about what's going on in
Speaker 1: our country today. I mean, and I put blame on
Speaker 1: Joe Biden as well, because he is pushing this rhetoric
Speaker 1: that you have to be black and in order to
Speaker 1: vote for him, and you not if you if you're
Speaker 1: with the president, and all these things that people are
Speaker 1: saying that even even the whole you know, it's racism.
Speaker 1: I want to percent highly doubt that this has anything
Speaker 1: to do with some sort of racism. So I'm disappointed
Speaker 1: in the majority's mainstream media that is pushing it that
Speaker 1: that narrative, as well as well as Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 1: I mean, these people should utterly, utterly be disappointed in
Speaker 1: themselves for the way they're conducting themselves. This is this
Speaker 1: is un American. All Right, we're gonna take a break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back more. Joe Collins, Dan Bugino We'll have
Speaker 1: more of this on Hannity tonight, nine Eastern one. We
Speaker 1: come out on the air. Uh. It is expected there
Speaker 1: will be more more protesting tonight. I hope it's peaceful.
Speaker 1: UH So that'll that'll happen tonight as we continue, Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity Show, eight hundred and ninety four one. Sean, you
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program. We continue
Speaker 1: our coverage what is a tragic, tragic situation in Minneapolis, Uh,
Speaker 1: with Dan Bongino and Joe Collins, who's by the way,
Speaker 1: running against Maxie Waters in this upcoming election in one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine days. Um. You know, I look
Speaker 1: at the bigger, broader picture here, and you know I've
Speaker 1: said this many years ago, Dan that I think cameras
Speaker 1: in cop cars, with audio cameras on cops, and now
Speaker 1: people with videos on the everywhere, it's going to be
Speaker 1: good to hold people accountable for their actions. Cops should
Speaker 1: want it for their own safety and protection. And you
Speaker 1: know what, we're getting more justice now as a result.
Speaker 1: You know, Sean, it's interesting you say, I know you
Speaker 1: have a family in law enforce, and me having been
Speaker 1: in law enforce, all my friends are cops, they told
Speaker 1: me after some initial reluctance when this first became widespread
Speaker 1: over a decade ago. The cops, actually, a lot of
Speaker 1: the cops I took, actually like this now because one,
Speaker 1: it weeds out the bad apples and true, like you said,
Speaker 1: it actually protects them because a lot of sometimes there
Speaker 1: are obviously false charges made both ways, and the police
Speaker 1: officers who do the right thing, they don't mind this
Speaker 1: check on them at all. And obviously again with this incident, Sean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just can't encourage people strongly enough put
Speaker 1: all the politics aside. I know we live in a
Speaker 1: really there is a human issue. Yeah, just imagine it
Speaker 1: was your kid. Just imagine that for a se Joe
Speaker 1: Collins last word, and if you'd be horrified, We're gonna
Speaker 1: be watching your race closely. In one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: nine days, you get the final fifteen seconds. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell people this. We need to stand up
Speaker 1: as leaders. Then we need to show our community how
Speaker 1: leaders are supposed to act. If you are a representative,
Speaker 1: we need you to actually do your job. We need
Speaker 1: you to represent We're at a time where you know,
Speaker 1: we have to let our Christian values depict who we are,
Speaker 1: you know, and I am ready to lead. I'm ready
Speaker 1: to lead the forty third district. I'm ready to leave
Speaker 1: this country all right. I'm going to leave it there.
Speaker 1: Thank you both of being well us. When we come
Speaker 1: back on the other side, you're calls the eight hundred
Speaker 1: and nine four one Sean well Folk coverage tonight, we
Speaker 1: expect protests nineties certain on the Fox News channel. I
Speaker 1: know that our community is in trauma and that they
Speaker 1: are trying to find ways to heal. From the very beginning,
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure and ensure and we will
Speaker 1: continue to do that to those who are wanting to
Speaker 1: express their First Amendment rights and go through this healing
Speaker 1: process that they will absolutely have that from me. And
Speaker 1: that is a guarantee as your Chief. But that being said,
Speaker 1: even prior to mister Floyd's death, we have had a
Speaker 1: community that has been in trauma for quite some time.
Speaker 1: And what I cannot allow, is chief, is for others
Speaker 1: to compound that trauma. And so if individuals, as occurred
Speaker 1: last night, our committing behavior in acts which are criminal
Speaker 1: and which are looting our businesses, as CONCI Vice president
Speaker 1: Jenkins had mentioned, are so vital to the health and
Speaker 1: vitality of our community. If they're looting those stores, if
Speaker 1: they're robbing people of essential needs and services for themselves,
Speaker 1: their families, and certainly in this pandemic, their loved ones.
Speaker 1: If they are setting buildings and structures on fire, which
Speaker 1: are harming the safety of our elderly in our youth,
Speaker 1: I cannot allow that. As chief, right that is the
Speaker 1: Minneapolis Police chief. His name is Police Chief Arandando. And
Speaker 1: by the way, you know, he was responding to the
Speaker 1: fact that there were no police presence at the locations
Speaker 1: during an evening in view. He said, our main priority
Speaker 1: for our officers there our safety and those who are
Speaker 1: out there. But he said went on, as you know,
Speaker 1: a target store, a liquor store, an auto zone store,
Speaker 1: we're all overcome by looters. And he said, our main
Speaker 1: priority for our officers is the safety of those that
Speaker 1: are out there, and that this cannot continue. And I
Speaker 1: would urge anybody if you want to protest, protest, protest peacefully.
Speaker 1: You know it was there was a moment last night
Speaker 1: Mike Toban on the ground for the Fox News Channel
Speaker 1: on our show last night where he was interviewing a
Speaker 1: guy that and then I'm a big concealed carry guy.
Speaker 1: I'm a big Second Amendment guy, had a gun in
Speaker 1: his hip. He was a former serviceman, passionate, understood the
Speaker 1: issues here, and UM it just when people see that,
Speaker 1: it ratchets up the heat in an environment like that
Speaker 1: for everybody. And UM I just I just hope that
Speaker 1: if people are gonna go out tonight and they're gonna protest,
Speaker 1: I hope they do it peacefully. It's clear from where
Speaker 1: the President's point of view is. The President has been
Speaker 1: very very clear on this. He's not changed his position.
Speaker 1: He's expediting. You got the d o J, you got
Speaker 1: the FBI. The President was very clear he wants this investigated.
Speaker 1: He sent his thoughts, his prayers to the family of
Speaker 1: mister Floyd, and he's now saying that the FBI is
Speaker 1: going to have an investigation, the DOJ, Department of Justice
Speaker 1: is going to have an investigation. Civil Rights Division will
Speaker 1: be involved, and based on the firings and based on
Speaker 1: what's happening, I would assume that that will happen probably
Speaker 1: in pretty short order. I think that I don't see
Speaker 1: any rational justification for what we witnessed on that video.
Speaker 1: And Dan Bongino. I think sent it best, and that
Speaker 1: is that you know, he was taught in the academy.
Speaker 1: All the people that I know that are in law enforcement.
Speaker 1: Once somebody stops resisting that not involved in resisting arrest
Speaker 1: in any way. Once they're handcuffed, that fight is over,
Speaker 1: and the adults in the room always have to be
Speaker 1: the police officers. But even that said, I didn't see
Speaker 1: any resisting of arrest whatsoever. You know, and then you
Speaker 1: think of well, what was this all about. It's about
Speaker 1: a twenty dollars what they believed to be a twenty
Speaker 1: dollar bill that was forged. You know, where is context
Speaker 1: perspective here? I'm not justifying crime. Criminals must be prosecuted
Speaker 1: if he was guilty, Okay, it did not rise to
Speaker 1: a level that we witnessed on this camera at all. Period.
Speaker 1: End of sentence. All right, let's go to our busy
Speaker 1: phones here. Let's say hi to Tanya. She's in North Carolina. Tanya, Hi,
Speaker 1: you're on the Sean Hannity Show. Hey there, how are you.
Speaker 1: It's so great to get through and talk to you.
Speaker 1: I'm good. I love you all so much. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're making our day. What's going on? Nothing much. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to call in comment on all the things
Speaker 1: you while we're talking about regarding the riots and stuff.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's awful what happened to
Speaker 1: that poor man. My heart goes out to the family
Speaker 1: in that. And when I see the video, it fills
Speaker 1: me with disgust. It's almost like a smirk or something
Speaker 1: on his face. It just sets me on fire because
Speaker 1: the man was pleading and he should have stopped. And
Speaker 1: I was listening to Dan Bongino a little bit ago
Speaker 1: and the stuff that he was saying, and it just
Speaker 1: demand was subdued. He submitted. I mean no he did.
Speaker 1: There was there was no need for any more use
Speaker 1: of any physical force at that moment. And it went
Speaker 1: on and on and on for minutes. Exactly he should.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's no horrible to watch. Horrible it is,
Speaker 1: and it gives other cops, you know, as Dan was
Speaker 1: saying previously, a bad name in that because they're not
Speaker 1: all bad, obviously, but it does it just it just
Speaker 1: infuriates me. It was just it was horrible. It should
Speaker 1: have never happened. It should have never got that far,
Speaker 1: no way, shape or form. I was reading about the
Speaker 1: Feller's history and stuff. He was a good man. He
Speaker 1: was he was doing right, he was getting his life together.
Speaker 1: He was a godly manner. And it's just it's just
Speaker 1: really sad, and I just feel so sorry for everyone
Speaker 1: and the looting and stuff. That's not going to solve anything, obviously,
Speaker 1: because they're kind of shooting themselves in the foot because
Speaker 1: stuff just got opened and you know, going about life again.
Speaker 1: But it's just very unfortunate, very important. It's sad, and
Speaker 1: you know what, you know, the President would end his
Speaker 1: rallies with we are one great American family. You know,
Speaker 1: we are one people. You know we are, and there's
Speaker 1: got to be We've been talking a lot about this
Speaker 1: now for three plus years. Equal justice under the law,
Speaker 1: equal application of our laws. Absolutely it is, and you know,
Speaker 1: and it just it fries me because I know cops.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you after the show last night, how
Speaker 1: many cops got in touch with me and said, thanks
Speaker 1: for saying it because it needed to be said, and
Speaker 1: that this guy is giving us a bad name. Comey Struck, McCabe, page,
Speaker 1: the whole bunch of them. They gave the FBI a
Speaker 1: really bad name. You know. I tell the story that
Speaker 1: when Joe Degeneva, you know, one night on the show,
Speaker 1: use the term I flinched dirty cops. Now we know
Speaker 1: a lot had gone on by that point, but I
Speaker 1: still flinched because, you know, you want to believe that
Speaker 1: the officers, all of them, can be trusted, that we
Speaker 1: give them, we empower them to protect and serve. You know,
Speaker 1: they are the line of defense for any community in
Speaker 1: law and order. It's a hard job they've got. And
Speaker 1: then people see videos like this, and there are some
Speaker 1: people will say, well, these are all cops. It's not
Speaker 1: all cops. Thank god. We wouldn't survive as a society
Speaker 1: if this was all cops. And the damage that is
Speaker 1: done is real, which is why in the FBI case,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Director Ray, where are you in this particular case?
Speaker 1: They look these things usually take a long time, very quickly,
Speaker 1: they looked at it. There's no justification. He's fired, and
Speaker 1: the guys that will with him fired, And I have
Speaker 1: to ask what were they thinking? You know, where were
Speaker 1: they The one guy was standing right there. I'm like,
Speaker 1: why didn't you say, oh, back off, let's put him
Speaker 1: in the car. I can't understand it. It is and
Speaker 1: knowing the neck areas as well as I know it,
Speaker 1: and train in self defense and situational self defense in particular,
Speaker 1: and a variety eclectic blend of arts. You just you
Speaker 1: only go for a neck if you want to really
Speaker 1: hurt somebody. You've got to be so careful around a neck. Now,
Speaker 1: for example, a headlock is different than a chokehold. You
Speaker 1: can start getting technical, et cetera. This is full on
Speaker 1: body weight force right on the man's neck with his
Speaker 1: head pinned to the pavement. And it is like, in
Speaker 1: all honesty, how mister Floyd survived that long is a miracle.
Speaker 1: Why nobody stop this? I cannot understand it. It's a
Speaker 1: human life, a human being, a fellow American. I don't
Speaker 1: get it. He's not There's there's no reason for this
Speaker 1: to have happened, none, whatsoever. None. Somebody should have interviewing
Speaker 1: somebody something, somebody should have done something. This should not
Speaker 1: have happened, never, never should have happened. It shouldn't have
Speaker 1: got that far. There's no it's just it's just really
Speaker 1: really really blows me away. You know, just standing time,
Speaker 1: Let's let's come together, you know, I know everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, this country is very divided politically. Let's we cannot,
Speaker 1: but we can still remember one thing. We're all Americans.
Speaker 1: We're all in this together. And I think Dan Bongino's
Speaker 1: point too about you know, hey, what if it's your
Speaker 1: kid that you're looking at in that video? Okay, taste closed,
Speaker 1: you know, checkmate, it's over. Nobody wants that to happen now,
Speaker 1: human This is a fellow human being. Anyway, Thank you, Tan,
Speaker 1: you appreciate it. Memphis, Tennessee. Rod is next Rod. How
Speaker 1: are you glad you called? No? Well, Man, thanks for
Speaker 1: having first time. Thank you. Sure you call if you
Speaker 1: don't mind. Man, I'd like to say in the twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen election, Man, I was actually talked out of voting
Speaker 1: for Dum's Trump. And I'm an African American. I'm twenty
Speaker 1: nine years old from Missus and I was also someone
Speaker 1: you know, I want you to show me what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do. So C and N started cutting off his interviews,
Speaker 1: cutting off his speeches, and I started watching Fox News
Speaker 1: for the first time my life, and I have come
Speaker 1: to the conclusion you have the only channel that tells
Speaker 1: the truth on TV and lo and behold, I'm listening
Speaker 1: to your radio stations. I'm listening to Mark Levin and
Speaker 1: I've never been more educated in my life about politics
Speaker 1: from Democrat Party. And I just want to say thanks well. Rod.
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you because you give all of us,
Speaker 1: you know, Rush, me, Mark, everybody, and you give us
Speaker 1: this honor, this microphone. You know, I I have, I
Speaker 1: have the greatest team in radio on TV. Everybody works
Speaker 1: so hard, and I'll tell you what our goal is.
Speaker 1: You know, we we dig deep and we try to
Speaker 1: get to the truth. We you know, it's amazing to
Speaker 1: me that there's wide open space in media today and
Speaker 1: all it is is for truth telling. And it's amazing
Speaker 1: that I watch it's like a group think psychosis that
Speaker 1: has taken over everybody in the media, print media. You know,
Speaker 1: these fake news cable channels that are nothing but liberal
Speaker 1: talk shows and opinion shows all day long, every second minute,
Speaker 1: hour of the day, hating Donald Trump. They miss the
Speaker 1: biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in history. Uh, they
Speaker 1: go with hoaxes and conspiracy theories, and they don't apologize
Speaker 1: after they got it wrong. Can you imagine the well
Speaker 1: they think? And I'm a Democrat, so I feel like
Speaker 1: they're making my people stupid, Like what is going on here? Like, no,
Speaker 1: you don't sound like a Democrat anymore. What did you
Speaker 1: think of Biden's recent comments? And by the way, he's
Speaker 1: had even more comments, But what do you think of
Speaker 1: his recent comments when he was on Charlotte Main Show.
Speaker 1: I really, you know, I want to offended. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: one of these cupcakes to get offended. I'm a college
Speaker 1: football coach. You know, I'm pretty silf guy. But also,
Speaker 1: where where do the coach? If you if you don't
Speaker 1: mind telling us, I coached a small college and UM
Speaker 1: in West Virginia. You know, it's kind of hard to
Speaker 1: speak out these days, especially if you're black, So like,
Speaker 1: I don't say anything on social media get the left
Speaker 1: of persecute you. And I've never seen this in my life,
Speaker 1: so I don't. I don't really speak out about things
Speaker 1: like the politics online or over there. You know one
Speaker 1: thing I also gonna say to you. You know, a
Speaker 1: good coach, good teacher, a good minister, anybody is worth
Speaker 1: their weight in gold. You know, you have no idea
Speaker 1: the impact you can have on young men in this case,
Speaker 1: I assume playing football and helping them grow into adulthood.
Speaker 1: There are so many traps you know, in society that
Speaker 1: they can fall into and ruin their lives, Drugs being
Speaker 1: the obvious one, alcoholism being another one. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: these young kids having you know, kids out of wedlock
Speaker 1: and you know literally literally puts puts makes everything hard
Speaker 1: because you know, maybe they didn't get the they need
Speaker 1: to be guided, they need to be taught, They need examples,
Speaker 1: They need people like you that can motivate them to
Speaker 1: be their better selves. I had I had a coach,
Speaker 1: this n as Nick Owens. He's from my school. He
Speaker 1: was he's an older he's an older white guy. And
Speaker 1: you know, I was always a curious guy, kind of
Speaker 1: old school and I always like to sit around old
Speaker 1: gentleman learning lives him and he was acute of the
Speaker 1: guy that kind of took me under his wing. But
Speaker 1: I always believe to myself and shunning every every goal
Speaker 1: I've set for myselvezens I was sixteen, I've achieved so far,
Speaker 1: played college football to Vision one, coaching college football. I
Speaker 1: don't have any kids, haven't had any criminal history and anything,
Speaker 1: and just churching the drink, so you know, and I
Speaker 1: had some one to help me stay out of the
Speaker 1: but I always believe to myself. Yeah, look, everybody can
Speaker 1: use a guiding hand or hand up. UM good solid example,
Speaker 1: living a good life, being a good examples as best
Speaker 1: you can be, knowing that we're all flawed creatures. But listen,
Speaker 1: it was really nice to meet you, Rod. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you called. God bless you. I hope your team has
Speaker 1: a great season. I hope you get to play this season.
Speaker 1: I think you will be able to. I think Robert
Speaker 1: Kraft was clear the NFL is on track to open
Speaker 1: up on time this uh, this fall, which we're all
Speaker 1: looking forward to. And uh, I wish you all the best. Okay, sir,
Speaker 1: all right, man, appreciate you. All right, appreciate you, sir.
Speaker 1: All right. That's gonna wrap things up for today. We'll
Speaker 1: be monitoring tonight the events whatever unfolds in Minneapolis. I
Speaker 1: hope it's peaceful protesting, but we'll be we'll be on
Speaker 1: the ground. We'll be monitoring Dan Mongino, Eraldo, Bernie Carrick. Also,
Speaker 1: we have an investigator report. Lawrence Jones talks to family
Speaker 1: members that lost loved ones in New York nursing homes
Speaker 1: and they're they're more than teed off. Mark Cuban is
Speaker 1: back tonight, also Senator Cotton and much more. Ninety Eastern
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Speaker 1: We'll see you tonight and back here tomorrow. Thanks for
Speaker 1: being Willis